Elaine Castillo's America Is Not the Heart: What Does It Mean to Be a Filipino Woman?
In Elaine Castillo’s debut novel, America is not the Heart, it delves into the themes of Filipino suffering and survival in which we...
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Rachel Egoian
Oct 10, 2018
Photography and Colonialism in the Early 19th Century Philippines - Art or Documentation?
In the Filipino culture, art and photography lack the support from our communities in which we place our focus towards health and...
Rachel Egoian
Jun 11, 2018
Monstress by Lesley Tenorio Article; Growing Up as a Filipino Minority
Filipino author Lysley Tenorio’s stories has appeared in The Atlantic, Zoetrope: All-Story, Ploughshares Monoa, and The Best New American...
Rachel Egoian
Jun 11, 2018
A Review of Dogeaters, a Novel by Jessica Hagedorn, an American Book Award Winner from the Before C
Having read Jessica Hagedorn’s controversial novel, Dogeaters, I found myself struggling with the the novel’s complex structure of the...
Keana A. Labra
Jun 11, 2018
From Bong Bong to Bob: Letters to Montgomery Clift by Noel Alumit and the Americanization of Filipin
The predicament of Filipino Americans, children either born in the United States or immigrated at a very young age, is usually not a lack...
Keana A. Labra
Jun 11, 2018
Filipino Children's Literature, Tales, Fables, and Oral Traditions
Even with the push for progressive and multicultural children’s literature, it still required a bit of searching to find a Filipino...
Keana A. Labra
Jun 11, 2018
Storm Over Leyte; Filipino Guerrillas Played an Important Role in WWII. Why Were Their Efforts Omitt
In all my years of education, this quote remained ubiquitous in my social studies courses: “History is written by the victors.” There...
Rachel Egoian
Jun 6, 2018
Peter Jamero's book Vanishing Filipino Americans: The Bridge Generation
We often question why is there such a gap between the old and new generations of Filipinos and Filipino Americans? Why is there little...
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